Word: appointive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Central Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools. He secured for it an anonymous gift of $2,000,000, soon got it reinstated in the Association. Last week Dr. Athearn was ousted from his job by Butler's board of directors. They gave no reason, merely cited their right to appoint and remove presidents at pleasure. Most Butlerites said it was because Butler was not getting its full quota of students...
...trouble began last August when Governor Gore was quoted as saying that all officials whom he might appoint would have to present undated resignations in advance (TIME, Aug. 28). This the Liberals considered an unprecedented insult to Puerto Rican dignity. Antonio R. Barcelo, politically ambitious president of the Liberal Party, promptly withdrew his list of suggested candidates, went into full opposition to the Gore regime. Governor Gore said he had never actually requested any undated resignations, accused Dr. Barcelo of circulating the story as a poli ical subterfuge. Dr. Barcelo's answer was an editorial in his La Democracia...
Malign our lodgings, (if you can, in the face of such enormous advantages) Never visit them. It is not that. We neither heed calumny, nor need attention. It is the failure to realize their existence that appalls and sickens us. Ignored by the powers who appoint a proctor for every dormitory, unmentioned by that great work "Information in regard to the Freshman Halls with Floor Plans and Prices," forgotten by those who decree that every Freshman Dormitory shall have a representative on the Union Committee (of all things), we should almost welcome even adverse comment. As Lord Denry Wotton said...
...effect; they crystallized an opposition to the ideal which went to reinforce the more obvious opposition to its practice. Fascism labours under no such handicap. Its critics are never sure that they are attacking the concept rather than a mere imperfect application of it; and its high priests will appoint neither prophet nor creed to dispel a confusion that is so convenient...
...University of the State of New York has no campus, faculty or student body. It consists merely of a Board of Regents who appoint a Commissioner of Education and administer the State's public educational system. Though the University, established in 1784, is the oldest continuous educational agency in the U. S., it did not receive its present broad powers until 1904. Before then it looked after higher education alone, having been founded primarily to rehabilitate King's College (now Columbia University) which had been suspended during the Revolution. New York State's University sometimes forgets...